Relationship between lean manufacturing teaching methods and learning styles: an empirical research on a production engineering postgraduate course
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https://doi.org/10.14488/1676-1901.v18i1.2682Keywords:
Traditional teaching methods. Problem-based learning. Index of learning style. Lean manufacturing. Postgraduate engineering education.Abstract
The interest in improving the quality in engineering education is widely deemed. Due to an increasingly worldwide competition regarding operational performance and business profits, Lean Manufacturing (LM) has been an emerging and relevant subject among Production Engineering and Business Management postgraduate courses. Despite the advances in teaching LM principles and techniques, the practical character inherent to LM undermines learning and development of students. In this sense, this study aims at proposing a methodology to enhance LM learning of Production Engineering graduates of a stricto sensu postgraduate course. The proposed methodology combines traditional teaching methods to PBL (problem-based learning) approach based on real problems of companies undergoing a lean implementation. The method is illustrated with an example in a Brazilian public university, which was one of the precursors in teaching Production Engineering in Brazil at postgraduate level. The findings indicate that PBL may be an effective complementary method for LM learning, especially if graduate students are exposed to real problems in companies that are undergoing a lean implementation and related it to the current body of the literature.Downloads
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